Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

[Louis-Luc Le Guerrier <leguerri at IRO dot UMontreal dot CA>]

Hi,
I'm using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 Server box. I mount some network
drives from other Windows machines's shared directories, and the
problem is cron jobs can't access these drives.

A given script will access mounted net drives as /cygwin/f/ when
manually invoked, but that SAME script will refuse to access the
same drives when triggered by a cron job.

If I type 'net use' before the cron starts, the status of the network
drives is "OK", but if I repeat 'net use' after the cron has triggered the
script with failure to access network drives, I then get "Disconnected"
as status. However, I'm still able to manually go in /cygwin/f/ and
list files, even though the status has become "Disconnected".

Anyone knows how to fix this problem?
I want to back up these network drives on tape with tar scheduled by
cron.

TIA.
Luc


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